Artificial fish-bait



s. B. GLEASON.

ARTIFICIAL FISH BAIT. APPLICATION FILED "'\N. I2. 1920.

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. INVENTOR W 6 QMA W STUART n. cnmson, or rnssuc, mew JEBsEY,

ARTIFICIAL FISH-BAH.

Fish-Bait, of which the following is a specification. I

M invention relates 'to improvements in arti cial bait for fish and the like and the object of my invention is to prov1de a-novel, simple and convenient but for catching fish I accomplish this object by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- 4 Figure 1 is a view of the device closed, with one side or cover removed.

Fig. 2- is a view of the same open, v

Fig. 3 is'a view of an optional form of the device showing an optional-arrangement 'ofthe hooks, and

Fig. 4. is a section on the line 4-4 in gimilar characters refer throughout the several views.

I My improved bait comprises a b y 1 of wood or other like material preferably of a lighter specific gravity than water to the end that the same will float at ornear the surface and having a plurality-of hooks 2, 3 normally concealed within the body and adapted to be projected beyond the body when the movement of the device throug the water is retarded and a pull exerted upon the lead 10. The hooks 2, 3 are pro vided with the common and usual form of barbed ends 2 and 3 respectively and are pivotally mounted on .a pivot gset at the approximate axiali center of. the device but I preferably toward the rear end. Forward of the said pivot 4 I provide a yoke 5 having arms 6 and 7 w 'ch engage links 8 and 9 carried by the hooks 2 and 3 ctivel The yoke 5 is connected with the lead 10 m any suitable manner and intermediatethe nose 11 of the device and the yoke5, I 'ro-' vide a spring 12 adapted to normally old the yoke 5 in a position toward the hooks 2 and 3 to retain the hooks withln the body Specification of Letters Patent.

. pose of to similar are trafedm Figs. 3 and 4 in which ,ingits three 1e s connected wit Patented July 26, 1921.

Application filed 3111111111712, 1920. Serial No. 850,738.

Iprovidearin orloo tobe the fish line 13. g p attached to I preferably provide within the device, at the lower side thereof a weight 14 to keep the dev1ce 1n an upright position in the water and prevent rolling.

I prefer to construct the body in a substantlally cylindrical form somewhat flattened at the sides and having a blunt rear point or stern 15 and a concave-convex prow or nose 11 W'ltha'llb 11 vertically arran thereon and having a base ro ectingfi yo'nd the upper part th'ereo for the p giving a movement in the when drawn by the fish line, somewhat approxlmatmg the movement of a bait fish.

I preferably split the device longitudi-Q nallyand construct the same of two counterpart side sections bound to It apertures or find this arrangement preferable to that of a solid body for the reason that read thus attained.

An optional form of the device is illus- I provide three hooks instead of the two hooks used. in the} referred form of my device illustrated 1n igs. 1 and 2; the general contour of both forms of the deviceis the same. In this optlonal form of the device however, I use a shell 21 for the stern section of the body 20 and provide thereina pivot 22 on which are mounted three hooks 23, 24 and 25 adapted to be gil' oj'ected beyond the surface of the body -t ough their res ctive apertures.

On the lead 26 I provide a tri d 27 havthethree hooks 23,- 24 an above I described retained within spring 29.

and the hooks are normally will be lp'rojected by the pull of the line13 and W1 catch in themouth of the fish which will be securely impaled thereon.

water,

y access to the interior is 25 by means of links 28 as the body by the. coiled. My device being thus assembled, the bait Hevin thus described my invention, what I aim is:

In a device of the character described, a

body a, hook normally concealed and pivot 15 ally hung therein, a yoke, a. connecting link between the oke and a point intermediate the ends of e hook and a-lead attached to mam the yoke whereby the hooks me be pro-v dy, s ubl I 0f Passaic, in the. county of Passaic an State of New Jersey jected beyond the surface of the stantmllg as shown and described.

S1gne at the cit this 30th day of December, A; 1).. 1919.

v B. GIJEASON. 

